The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-04-07


for the animals.
a correspondent OF the Lewistown
Gd.ette, from Milroy, sends the follow.
ing One of the farmers in this neck
o. woods while engaged in removing
n stump from field one day last
week came upon what greatly re-
sembled a ball of tangled rope. Up
on exposure to the sun for "a short
time he discovered that it was a mass
Of copper-heod snakes twisted and
interlaced together with the heads
outward When stirred up they hiss
ed in u manner horrible enough to
make ones hair stand on end. Call
| ing assistance he succeeded in dis
patching them. When laid side by
side aud counted up there were found
to be one hundred and ninety.thrce.
,r, III gavo her the throttle, aud W,
cd along at good rate OF
on the making perhaps, thirty to thir
; been miles an hour. IA we went "
8 You ing througi Sebago Lake s
lib the had a kiud OF feeling come o
White that there was something
on the | didn't notice il at fret, but
ever now and then it would como
road that all wasn't right. | nllers
seems inc my machine before l star
I some her good oiliu', look well
noth- bolts and parallel rods, try The
Craw- and such ana go krew VII
curve. left Portland, old 40 was in
Port. working trim. Yet the feelin
is my on me until it was q steady th
oonld tried TO shake it off, but it wa
,s that use. | felt it in my bones tha
axe the thing was M.
s aud "Now you gentlemen will !,
--.,o me for being fool, aud
SHLECT SCHOOL.--Prof -. G.. Muir;
,phey, Of Red stone, Fayette county,
Pa, formerly Instructor in the Lock
Haven state Normal school, has nc
"cpted the priucipaiship OF Select
School to be opened AT Middleburgh,
Pa, April 18th. Instructions will be
given IN the ordinary common school
studies as well as in such advanced
branches as are usually taught in our
best Academies. Students fitted for
lCollrse when desired. Normal Lee
turee will bo given for the benefit Of
teachers.
Miss Nellie VI. Miller, one o! the
no,t accomplished teachers within
the bounds OF our county, has been
selected to teach the Primary De-
partment Good Boarding can be-
secured at reasonable rates. Tuition
in the advanced department, from
500 to 500 for the session, in the
primary department from SEQ to
$3.50. Location healthful, and on
line of the Sunbury and Lewistowu
Rail Road. The School will deserve,
and should received an earnest sup
port and encouragement from the
citizens of our own, and adjoining
''u'''eS' for l'"r.'c"'"'s' "uuress'
~ 0' IN "'',",' ."
April 6, 81. Middleburgh, Pa
+ ARBoR DAY.-Gevcrnor Beaver has
) issued u proclamation appointing
Friday, April -, as Arbor Day. In
. it II" says:
: LET school directors, teachers, and
scholars unite in making it II day for
the adornment of the grounds SUR
: rounding the school hou SEES throug
out tue commonwealth L't 'he
; people oi our towns ana villages MAKE
II DAY Tor t'le pIaht'hS OF trees
along th''r streets Let the people III
our rurhi regions see 10 II that theIr
hiEways are pehutIIl'd ny the plant
lhg ol trees upon th'lr borders let
: families ob''rE the day III the plant
ing OF trees ana shrubh'ry III the
grounds surrounding thrir homes.
-. Let the farmers see To 1t that tn"
waste places on their tv'Ins are turn
eel |" prohthhle account ny the plant
ing OF timber, nut, and fruit trees
thereon. Let all the people uhder-
stand that upon the general obser-
/, vance OF TINS day, ana the prnctica
results which arise thereirom, IN large
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